Kyung-jae

Kyung-jae
Hangul 경재
Hanja 敬宰 and others
Revised Romanization Gyeongjae
McCune–Reischauer Kyŏngjae

Kyung-jae, Gyeong-jae, and Kyoung-jae are various Latin-alphabet spellings of a single Korean male given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written. There are 54 hanja with the reading "kyung" and 20 hanja with the reading "jae" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[1]

People with this name include:

  • Kim Kyoungjae, stage name Eli Kim (born 1991), member of South Korean boy band U-KISS
  • Kim Kyung-Jae (died 2002), first human being to die from playing a video game too much
  • Lee Kyung-jae (born 1954), ethnic Korean community organiser in Japan
  • Shōkei Arai, Japan's first naturalised parliamentarian, formerly known by his Korean name Bak Gyeong-jae

See also

References

  1. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
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